"No one starts their day thinking of themselves as a bad person trying to be bad" Actually a fuckton of people clearly do
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Trump, Shkreli, whoever. There's a whole contingent of ppl whose way of feeling powerful is to be openly the Bad Guy and get away with it
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Maybe "trolling" is to cutesy a term for it but there absolutely is a personality type that feeds on hostility and oppoaition
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Orwell said it in 1984, the purpose of power is power and you only know you have power if you're causing harm
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I just feel like "Everyone is the hero of their own story" is badly misapplied. Do high school bullies think they're "the good guy"? Ofc not
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Assholes think they're in the kind of nihilistic story where the most awesome and badass guy is awesome and badass because he's an asshole
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You can dress up Nazi ideology with Nietzschean claptrap abt "master morality" and "slave morality" but it boils down to enjoying being bad
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@arthur_affect I think it comes down to believing everyone is bad, or wants to be. So you might as well be the best at it.1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
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Strip away the verbiage and "master morality" = "amorality" and "slave morality" = "fake morality"
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The stance of the troll always reverts to "You're all phonies and hypocrites" as an excuse for the troll's own vacuous shittiness
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Beware the person who spends literally all his time pointing out other ppl's hypocrisy, it keeps him from explaining why he doesn't do shit
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@arthur_affect I wish the trolls I got only did that. And people rightly point out Milo's, DeBoer's, and others' hypocrisies all the time.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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